>EXCLUSIVE in COBOL Statement, HP COBOL II/XL The COBOL EXCLUSIVE statement is an HP extension to the ANSI COBOL standard. The EXCLUSIVE in COBOL statement provides you with a method for locking a file that has been opened for shared access.

>COBOL UN-EXCLUSIVE Statement, HP COBOL II/XL The COBOL UN-EXCLUSIVE statement is an HP extension to the ANSI COBOL standard. The COBOL UN-EXCLUSIVE statement releases a file that has been previously locked by the COBOL EXCLUSIVE statement.